Word: questioners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mean a number of places. Well known is the fact that many Rightist bombers have come from Italy, that a large proportion of Rightist aviators are Italians. Also well known is the fact that the principal Italian air base in Spain is on the island of Majorca. Big question of last weekend's war scare was whether Leftist Spain was threatening to bomb Italian cities like Genoa (400 miles from Barcelona) and Rome (550 miles) or simply Italian-controlled cities like Palma, Majorca...
...years, the vital question of who would play Scarlett O'Hara and Rhett Butler has stirred controversy in U.S. bars, drawing rooms and dinner tables. Actually tested for the role of Scarlett O'Hara were such various charmers as Tallulah Bankhead, Paulette Goddard, a typist named Margaret Tallichet, a manicurist named Arleen Whelan and Mrs. John Hay Whitney, wife of Mr. Selznick's backer. Mentioned for it were so many other actresses, obscure or celebrated, that Variety cracked that, if all of them attended the premiere, the picture would pay expenses in one performance. Playwright Clare Booth...
...found it "sensual, gross, profane, vulgar." It seemed a parlous thing to Mr. Huselton that the author of such a work should be instructor at the Kansas City Art Institute. Round to the Institute's board of governors pattered prim Mr. Huselton to complain. Last week, when the question of renewing Benton's teaching contract came up, not one governor present moved for renewal...
...Manhattan, outspoken Painter Benton professed to regard the affair as "a big joke." This week the board finally decided to renew the contract, held: "No matter what anybody may think of Mr. Benton's book or his painting, there has been no question regarding his ability as an instructor...
With a fifth campaign coming to decision in November, FCC Chairman Frank Ramsay McNinch last week announced that he would lay before his Commission the question of promulgating rules for distributing time to political candidates. A formal petition for campaign regulations recently came from station WTAR (Norfolk, Va.). WTAR was tired of having to take on itself the politically dangerous (as well as costly) responsibility of allotting politicians the use of its station...